Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which we can be proud." If Reischauer is indeed proud of a policy that by his own admission has not done everything possible to end a war that is costing hundreds of lives every week, then his values are very different from our own and from those that would prevail, we would assume, in any decent democratic society...
...election as Governor in 1964, gave the explanation that most politicians understand: "We did in Michigan," he said, "what we thought contributed the most to the Republican Party in the state." Some of his listeners booed. Goldwater observed that national unity rather than a spirit of revenge must prevail, that he could find little to disagree with in Romney's speech. Then, with head-snapping abruptness, Barry said: "I'm backing Dick Nixon...
...pendulum of official thinking from left to right would bring [U.S. policy] close to my own outlook in the years 1946 to 1948, only to carry it away once more in the other direction, with the oversimplified and highly militarized view of the Russian problem that came to prevail after...
...discuss and deal with, rather than attempting to shift the focus to essentially trivial questions of behavioral infractions. The University administration's attempt to isolate and divide the protestors is most ignoble. Those who share this moral outrage--faculty and students alike--should not allow these diverse tactics to prevail and should not allow the essential moral questions to be evaded. Chester W. Hartman Assistant Professor of City Planning...
London. But in spite of the book and the free cups of carefully brewed coffee available at the meeting, no one was certain that harmony would prevail. "Fifty percent of our delegates are pessimistic," said Brazilian Representative Georges Maciel, "and the rest feel no optimism." The reason was that no nation had a very clear idea of how to eliminate the present surplus or stop the flood of newly harvested coffee beans that continues to roll...